Investment Trusts

Alliance Trust, UK investment services provider, has published the results of its first quarter ‘Alliance Trust ISA Ranking’ for 2007.

The Board of Jupiter Green Investment Trust is pleased to announce proposals for a further issue of equity securities.

A bottom-up investment process and a low inflationary environment have helped to drive performance for the award-winning JPMorgan European Fledgeling Investment Trust run by AA Citywire-rated co-managers Jim Campbell and Francesco Conte.

Following the AIC's research into the dividend growth of global growth trusts, F&C would like to draw your attention to the Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust which has posted the strongest dividend growth in the sector, increasing by 128% over the past 10 years (42% higher than its nearest competitor).

Alliance Trust PLC, has announced that its net asset value rose 39% to £2.8bn in the last financial year to 31 January 2007, following the successful merger with the Second Alliance Trust that created the UK’s largest generalist investment trust company.

The Alliance Trust ISA Ranking lists the most popular investment trusts that private investors have chosen for their ISA through Alliance Trust Savings, excluding investments in Alliance Trust PLC.

CTFs are celebrating their second anniversary this week, with F&C options among the very top performers since launch. For example, a £250 investment in the best selling Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust two years ago would now be worth £374 while the F&C Global Smaller Companies trust would have climbed to £412.

As the Government celebrates the second anniversary of the launch of the Child Trust Fund (CTF), millions of parents whose children were not eligible for this savings account may be wishing the Government had given their offspring a birthday present too.

With the start of the new tax year just over one week away, Standard Life is highlighting that those with certain types of trust will have just one year left to consider making changes to them.

With trust-related cases already coming through the door just four weeks after launching the first of its Multi-Asset Trusts, Fidelity FundsNetworkTM, is pleased to announce the addition of two more trusts to its range.

Legal & General’s UK Property Trust, which launched on 28 February 2006, has broken through the £100 million barrier in funds invested in its first year.

JPMorgan Asset Management (JPMAM), provider of investment trusts, today announced they are offering the opportunity for individuals to win one of five family holidays to Disneyland® Resorts Paris.

The £172m European Assets Trust has today announced financial results for the year ended 31 December 2006.

The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) today expressed its pleasure at the release of the EU Advocate General’s opinion, which supports the view that investment trusts should be exempt from VAT on management fees.

Standard Life Investments, a leading fund manager, is to offer investors 0% initial charge on investments in its range of award-winning Investment Trusts during this year’s ISA season.